Understanding Why People Work: Theories of Motivation and Factors Influencing Employee Experience

This report analyzes the general theories of motivation, factors influencing employee experience, and strategies to cope with negative aspects of job roles. It discusses Maslow's hierarchy of needs theory, intrinsic and extrinsic motivation, and factors such as salary, promotion, and work environment that motivate employees. It also examines positive and negative factors that impact employee experience and suggests strategies such as employee engagement and opportunities to express opinions to cope with negative aspects of job roles.

Business Management with Foundation
BMP3004
World of Work
Understanding why people work

Contents
Introduction 3
What does Motivation Mean? 3
The various factors which motivate employees to work
4
The positive factors personnel experience as a result of their job roles
5
The negative factors personnel experience as a result of their job roles
5
Strategies to cope with negative factors worker experience as a result of
their job roles 6
Conclusion 6
References 7

INTRODUCTION
Motivation refers to the process motivating the person for the given job role so that they
can be efficient in their specific field. It leads to build the goal oriented behaviour that includes
cognitive & emotional forces which motivate the individual behaviour. This also helps in
establishing the better team so that an organisation can achieve the organisational goal in an
effective approach(Karaman, Vela and Eşici, 2020). When the person tends to work, this means
that they learn certain task & set of skills by which they can make the strong working within the
organisation. There are various reasons for which the people work and motivation is the tool that
is being used to analyse the overall functionality of the employees for its better working. This
report will analyse the general theories of motivation & also analyse the aspects which impact
the employees and the positive and negative experience within the organisation. Lastly, it will
analyse the strategies which helps them to comply and understand the negative experience.
What does Motivation Mean?
Motivation is the approach which helps in reflecting the entire working of the employees
by which they can work in an appropriate manner. This basically involves the emotional,
biological an social aspects that can motivate the individual behaviour. There are certain theories
of motivation that can be influence the human activities & these are given below:
Maslow hierarchical of need theory- It is defined as the five aspects of the human
needs in the hierarchical manner. Individual get motivates so that they can rightly attains the
needs to take the appropriate decisions over other and these are illustrated below:
 Physiological needs: This is the primary needs of the individual which is essential for the
human lives and includes air, water, food, shelter etc. when these needs can not be rightly
fulfilled to satisfy then the human being can be have survival. After meeting this needs,
they further shift to another need.
 Safety needs: After meeting the basic need of the individual, they want to experience &
analyse the life that can be fulfilled by the people & their family members. This also
assists the people to have the happy life as they are working with free mind in an
effective manner.
 Love & belonging needs: This includes the needs that is being arisen when the person is
having the various aspects with the aim of its personnel relationships and being the parts

of particular group. This also leads to have the better consideration in the market by
which they can ensures the effective working and build better relationship with the
collogues.
 Self-esteem need: It is the needs which is being arises when the individual wants to have
the certain position by which they can ensures the better working in the
organisation(Marotz, 2021). Another point is the desire of respect & recognition from the
other people that is prestige & status of individual. By meeting such needs, the person
can go to next need.
 Self-actualization needs: It is the highest level of wish that involves the actual
realization of the person's potential which leads to have the personal growth of the
individual as well the entire working of the individual. This also assists the individual to
have the better attainment of everything in such a way that it shows the better lives of the
individual.
Two type of motivation that are illustrated below:
 Intrinsic: It is defined as the action of the activity for its inherent satisfaction instead of
some separable consequence. An individual work with the aim of fun or challenge
entitled because of external products, pressure or rewards. This also helps the person to
get the feel of satisfaction at the workplaces.
 Extrinsic: It is the motivation which includes completing the task due to the outside
causes such as avoiding punishment or getting a reward for its better performance. This
includes the main difference between two is intrinsic comes from the outside
environment and intrinsic comes within.
The various factors which motivate employees to work
Salary: It is the money that is being paid on monthly basis by their employees especially
when they are in the profession which includes the better consideration in the market. In context
to this, an individual can do which is most important for their survival. This can b said that when
the individual get the fair compensation of their work them they work with more motivation and
also give proper time to achieve the certain approaches by which they can enhance the overall
productivity.
Promotion: It is the factor that motivates the employees which reflects their ambition
and their wish to have the independence, autonomy & managerial competency(Kohnke, 2020)..

When the worker are being shifted to the new job by enhancing their job role and also makes
them better consideration and they are efficient in their working by which they become
influenced to work in an specific company.
Work Environment: It is the factor that leads to motivate the personal by accessing
and giving them the better working environment by which they can make the right use of their
skills to perform better in the given field. This also leads to enhance the overall productivity &
profitability of the company.
The positive factors personnel experience as a result of their job
roles
The job of the individual that offers the experience to the company and also helps to have
the effective consideration for getting the positive satisfaction by the job. There are certain of the
factors that influence the experience of the employees that are illustrated below:
 Modern performance management: when the workers are operating its job in an
appropriate manner then it leads to get better results within the organisation. It is the main
approach that includes the performance management as the continuous evaluation of the
person's work to work in analysing the deviation from the work and also leads to enhance
the overall efficiency and the overall productivity of the workers.
 Skill development & growth opportunities: Every employees is working for polishing
their skills & attributes so which they can get career growth for future. When the
individual is offering the job opportunities and the certain development, this also assists
in giving positive experience of the workers.
The negative factors personnel experience as a result of their job
roles
There are negative aspects that influence the person performance and its experience of the
workers which is related to the given job are illustrated below:
 Workplace conflicts: It is the main factor that is being tackled by the workers at the
given workplace and also having the wrong understanding that tends to lower down the
morale of the employees and also reflects the overall productivity of the employees(Costa
and et. al., 2021).

 Toxic work environment: It is the aspects that is impacting the overall working of the
employees. When the negative considerations that affects the overall operations of the
venture. The employees feel dissatisfied at the workplace.
Strategies to cope with negative aspects worker experience as a result of
their job roles
There are certain strategies through that the employee can cope with the negative experience
of the workers are given below:
 Opportunity to express opinions & views: It is the factor that assists in having the
various ways by that they can frame the better approach with the aim of getting good
results & various opinions to their given job (Velichkovsky, 2020). This influence the
workers to have their job satisfaction & more productivity.
 Employee engagement: These aspects allowed the individual to have the continuous,
less better conversation by which they can reduce the unnecessary conflicts to the
workers who are going to perform at their given job designation & easily grab new tasks
so that they can perform well.
CONCLUSION
From the above report, It is being concluded that motivation plays the significant role at
the workplace. There are various factors which influence the employees for their hard work and
dedication for attaining the goals of the company. This includes, salary, promotion and working
environment etc. this also leads to have the positive experience by giving the growth
opportunities and the modern management of their working. Whereas toxic working environment
and conflicts leads to create the negative employees experience in their working. In order to
overcome from these situation, organisation using various strategies that includes the by
accessing recognition, enhance their engagement & give opportunities to express their
suggestions and opnions.

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